Unable to bear expenses for hiring cyber experts: WBBPE
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Kolkata: The West Bengal Board of Primary Education (WBBPE) has expressed its inability to bear the expenditure of hiring cyber and software experts by the CBI to recover the data regarding optical mark recognition (OMR) sheets used in the written examination for recruitment of primary teachers in State-run schools. On July 5, Calcutta High Court’s single-judge bench of Justice Rajasekhar Mantha directed the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to take the help of specialised agencies or individuals like cyber and software experts, even from abroad if necessary, to recover the OMR data.
At the same time, Justice Mantha also directed that the entire cost for bearing the assistance of expert agencies should be borne by the West Bengal Board of Primary Education (WBBPE).
However, sources said that the WBBPE authorities have recently forwarded a communique to the CBI’s Nizam Palace office in central Kolkata expressing its inability to bear the expenditure on this count.
